Category: Quotes about Dickens
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When Dickens crossed the bar
Today marks the 153rd anniversary of Charles Dickens's death. His daughter Mamie later wrote of it…
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Why we love Dickens
"This is why we love Dickens; why today, when many of the social issues this book…
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Happy Easter!
The impulse toward resurrection is grand motif of human existence: it’s the arc of all creation…
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Happy 205th, Mr. Dickens!
"From Dickens himself readers wanted more and he gave it, prodigiously. The huge sweep of his…
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How to read Dickens
"She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him." –Eudora Welty,…
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London as Dickens saw it
NPR has a review of The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders. She's…
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That might explain it
"Accustomed to the luxury of major and minor revision, of multiple drafts, of months or years…
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A life of their own
"As in its author's previous fictions, we are almost oppressed by the fulness of life which…
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Praise for ‘David Copperfield’
"At its best fiction is not opposed to or inconsistent with real life, but rather its…
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A passion for human peculiarity
Many of the book’s admirers detect an artistic falling off as David passes from childhood into…